Secunia Security Advisory - Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Vitamin plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
WordPress Vitamin Plugin Two Arbitrary File Disclosure
Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50176
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-08-07
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DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Vitamin plugin for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information.
Input passed via the "path" parameter to
wp-content/plugins/vitamin/add_headers.php and
wp-content/plugins/vitamin/minify.php is not properly verified before
being used to display files. This can be exploited to disclose the
contents of arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.0.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vitamin/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/582232/vitamin
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